Harbours - New Zealand - Bay of Plenty Region

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-048

Description: Several sketches on one page. At the top is a conical island shape on the left (possibly one end of Matakana Island), with Tauranga seen across the sea in the background. Several studies of boats and yachts below. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 254 x 178 mm (page size).

Date: 1925 - 1947

By: Siroper, George, active 1925

Reference: MapColl-832.16aj/[ca.1925-47]/Acc.12,026

Description: Drawn on a published map of Mayor Island to Poverty Bay with an extended portion of another map glued to include the area from Mayor Island to the Mercury Islands. The annotations depict extended river and partially smooth water limits at various points around the coastline from the Mercury Islands to Poverty Bay. The limit for Gisborne fishing boats extends from Cape Runaway to Poverty Bay. A reference key is included which states that river and smooth water limits are coloured blue and one area is prominently named Te Kaha river limits. Extended and partially smooth water limits are coloured red and three areas are prominently named Tauranga; Whakatane, Ohiwa and Opotiki; Te Kaha extended river limits. The Tauranga extension for fine weather only, at the discretion of the Inspector of Fisheries, is coloured green. 'Opotiki extreme limits' covers the approximate area between White Island and Whale Island. An additional area has been shaded green for the extended river and partial limit from Whangamata and Tauranga to Mayor Island, with details written in biro added at a later date. Also marked in biro are three anchorages for launches, one at Waihau Bay. 'George Siroper 9/1/25' is handwritten adjacent to reference key, at centre top of map. Signature hard to decipher. '133/47' is handwritten centrally on the map. Nos. '6' and '2527' and 'Restricted limits - Bay of Plenty' are handwritten on the reverse Base map: Mayor Island to Poverty Bay / surveyed by Captain W. Pudsey Dawson. London: The Admiralty, 1906. Title supplied by cataloguer Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on card, coloured, scale not given, 84.3 x 95.8 cm.

Date: 1962

Reference: MapColl-832.16gmbd/1962/Acc.28762

Description: Drawn on an outline of the North Island, depicts roads within the service area of the Port of Tauranga, from Auckland southwards to New Plymouth and eastwards to Gisborne and Napier. Also depicts the Tauranga Harbour Board's 1963 District. Reserve copy: MapColl Reserve 832.16gmbd/1962/Acc.28762 Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1: 2 300 000], 33.8 x 21 cm.

Date: 1962

By: Tauranga Harbour Board

Reference: MapColl-832.16gme/1962/Acc.28760

Description: Drawn on an outline of the North Island, depicts existing railway routes, projected routes and shipping routes, and outlines the Tauranga Harbour Board's 1963 district. Reserve copy: MapColl Reserve 832.16gme/1962/Acc.28761 Singed ERN, 25/9/62. Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale [1:2 300 000], 33.8 x 21 cm.

Date: 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2244-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down across Tauranga Harbour from Maungatapu. Sandbanks in the centre, Mount Maunganui in the centre right middle distance. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Source of descriptive information - Date from other images taken by Moore, linked with his own personal numerical system Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Distant view of "Tauranga Harbour". No. 165. From Mangatapu [i.e. Maungatapu] N.Z.; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Distant view Tauranga Harbour Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.0 cm

Date: 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2245-F

Description: Panoramic view, probably of the Matapihi Railway Bridge, Waipu Bay and Tauranga Harbour. There is a large camping ground in the foreground with many tents and marquees including a big circular tent on the right. Crowds of people on the beach behind the tents. Another collection of tents across the bridge on the left. Cars and trucks parked in a field on the far right. A tent in the foreground has the letters "C.D.M.S." printed on the roof. Stacks of wood piled up, smoke from a coupld of fires. Fields of corn in the foreground between tents. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Source of descriptive information - Location and date from other images with some similarities taken by R P Moore Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 105.4 cm

Date: 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2243B-F

Description: Panoramic view showing a ship behind wharf buildings, and railways rolling stock on the far left. Harbour on the left of the image, railway line along the shore with a road running parallel. There is a railway bridge across the image in the centre distance. The Guinness Brothers' building is in the right foreground and a horse and cart are on a small grassy area between the railway line and the road in the centre foreground. A large two-storeyed building with a turret in the centre right middle distance. Township on the right. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Tauranga" N.Z. From Redoubt. 1928. No. 165; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Tauranga from Redoubt Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 112.3 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2236-F

Description: Panoramic view of Tauranga taken from a railway bridge with the harbour in the foreground and Mount Maunganui centre left middle distance. Several launches and yachts are moored near the shore on the left. Identifiable businesses along the shoreline include the Star Hotel, Norris Land Agency, F E Nutter (General Drapery), AARD Motor services, and Guinness Brothers. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Tauranga" N.Z. from Railway Bridge. No. 167; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Tauranga from Rly Bridge Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 110.4 cm

Date: 1880-1880

From: Simpson, Ralph Annand, 1908-1994 : Papers relating to New Zealand ports and harbours

Reference: MS-Papers-11505-16

Description: Printed matter from Appendices to the Journal of House of Representatives, 1880 and sketches of plans of various harbours Other - original file - NZCS ARC AG01 S01 F16 T01 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-011

Description: Three views on one page. The top view (pencil) is of a sailing vessel; the central view (pencil) is of the entrance to Port Nelson, with the port and its ships visible and the Arrow Rock in the centre, the Boulder Bank and a lighthouse at its end towards the left. The lower view, a watercolour, is of the Port of Tauranga, with Mount Maunganui left of centre in the background. In the left foreground are cylindrical storage tanks and there are several ships in the harbour area Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1835

By: Wing, Thomas, 1810-1888; Great Britain. Hydrographic Office; Wyld, James, 1812-1887

Reference: MapColl-832.16aj/1835/Acc.3899

Description: A hydrographic chart sketching the entrance of the Tauranga Harbour, depicting the path of the ship 'Fanny', around Mount Maunganui and Waikouai, with full sounding information. Identifies fortified pa site named 'Tumaitai Pa', the accompanying diagram depicts six whare or houses, and two tree-like storage huts. On the other side of the water, text reads 'the chief of this place anutra (sic)'; text on water reads 'going to Tomonalap (sic) Pa'. Denotes several sentences of text on geographical features, hydrographic detail and information on safe entrance and exit to the harbour. Catalogue card: 'Made by Thomas Wing in the schooner Fanny. Shows tracks, navigations notes.' Note on map reads 'Copied from a rough tracing belonging to Mr Wyld, May 12, 1841.' Note on map reads: 'The Fanny's track into Tauronga (sic) June 1835 south by compass from the Mayor Island.' See also MapColl-832.16aj/1835/Acc.423 which is the original drawing of this map, attributed to Capt. Thomas Wing, of the ship 'Fanny'. Extended Title - Tauranga Inscriptions: Stamped 'Hydro Office 13.My.41' Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 41 x 61 cm.

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-082-3

Description: A view of Tauranga Harbour showing Mt Maunganui and Motuotau Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 80 x 240 mm

Date: 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-0864-F

Description: Panoramic view of Ohiwa Harbour with a long causeway leading to a small building out in the harbour. Taken by Robert Percy Moore in 1928 Inscriptions: Marginal notes on tape - [On verso] 36 exp B&W "Ohiwa Harbour"; Marginal notes on tape - [Written in list formation on above tape] 1 24; Marginal notes on negative - Title "Ohiwa Harbour" Bay of Plenty 1928; Photographer's title on negative - centre right - "Ohiwa Harbour" Bay of Plenty 1928 No. 192 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.8 x 109.5 cm

Date: 1911

From: Various artists :[Two New Zealand autograph albums including watercolour landscapes of Auckland. ca 1895 - 1896]

By: Dalzell, T E R, active 1911

Reference: E-894-024

Description: Monotone sepia watercolour shows a view of a high bluff in the distance, a lower cliff in the middle distance at the left, and two wharves in the foreground. Extended Title - In Writing album [New Zealand autograph album, ca 1895], page [24 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on album page, 225 x 180 mm.

Date: 1863

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-043

Description: Shows view of Tauranga Harbour, its inlets, and the distant hills, with two ships (including H.M.S. Harrier?) Other Titles - Maunganui. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - TAURARGA. NZ. 1863; Verso - centre - (In pencil): Tauranga New Zealand. Sketched from / the Top of Monganui - Scrivener was appointed assistant paymaster on the "Harrier" on 12 Sept. 1863. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 247 x 371 mm.

Date: 1962

Reference: MapColl-832.16gmfs/[1962?]/Acc.28758

Description: Mount Maunganui Wharf depicting the Mt Maunganui Domain, Moturiki Island, Mt Maunganui Borough, Harbour Board's office, Salisbury Jetty, grain mills, fertiliser forks, petrol storage tanks, sulphur pit, airfield, outline of Tauranga city, Coronation Pier, Waikareao Estuary and Matakana Island. Reserve copy: MapColl Reserve 832.16gmfs/[1962?]/Acc.28759 Signed E Long. Quantity: 2 map(s). Physical Description: Diazo photoprint, scale indeterminable, 33.8 x 21 cm.

Date: 1868

From: Artist and photographers unknown :[Watercolours of the Bay of Plenty and thermal regions, Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands, and Ireland; photographs of Dover, a Belgian monument, Ireland and New Zealand bush, 1866-1868]

Reference: A-443-015-1

Description: Shows a view of the monument commemorating 26 men of the 43rd Regiment who were killed in action or died of wounds received at Pukehinahina (Gate Pa) and Te Ranga in mid-1864. The monument itself is in the foreground on the right, with the white pickets of the cemetery showing in front of it. A number of trees, including cabbage trees and flax bushes, stand prominently to its left. From the headland Mount Maunganui can be seen in the background. Although not the same scene, this might usefully be compared to Henry Ambrose Scrivener's Burial ground at Tauranga New Zealand of those killed at the Gate Pah... 1864 (B-064-024) and Andrew Thomas H. Carbery's Cemetery at Te Papa, Tauranga (E-248-q-096), which show similar views prior to the monument's erection. Other Titles - Gate Pa Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Monument of the 43rd killed at the Gate Pah Tauranga [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 134 x 245 mm

Date: [ca 1910-1930]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000190-G

Description: View of Opotiki Harbour looking inland to the hills in the distance. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Part of the Strand series. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Opotiki Harbour. NZ. 2196D; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Strand Series Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1924

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1643-1/2-G

Description: View of Tauranga waterfront from the Redoubt, showing reclamation, and the business premises of Guinness Brothers (grocers). Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber, in 1924. Named and dated from Godber File in Photographic Archives (Under 76. Tauranga from Redoubt. Tauranga. 1924). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [ca 1930]

From: Edwards, Gerald Harry, 1910- :Negatives

Reference: 1/4-018421-G

Description: Aerial view of Tauranga Harbour and Mount Maunganui settlement, circa 1930. Photograph taken by G H Edwards. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative